“Leave your home, O youth, and seek out alien shores. A wider range of life has been ordained for you.” Petronius

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“Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.” Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray

Beechworth Lunatic Asylum, originally known as the haunted Mayday Hills Lunatic Asylum is a decommissioned hospital located in Beechworth, a town of Victoria, Australia. Mayday Hills Lunatic Asylum was the fourth such Hospital to be built in Victoria, being one of the three largest. Mayday Hills Hospital closed in 1995 after 128 years of operation. … More Nightfall at the Asylum

This week’s WordPress Photo Challenge is Room …. Tomorrow we end our 2 week tour of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. From here at the Empress Hotel in Victoria, British Columbia we travel back to Vancouver and tonight begin a 1 week cruise along the coast of western coast of Canada and Alaska to Ketchikan and … More WPC – The Empress Room